Death of the internet? – Josh Foisey

Lately I’ve been seeing these videos being shared on facebook and tumblr that are hinting at what could be the death of the internet. The videos describe how the government is trying to rid of all platforms on the web that host illegal file sharing. They have realized the scare tactics of sueing people for stealing music is not working. People are never going to stop finding ways to get things for free, and they acknowledged that. In respponse they want to shut down sites like mediafire, megaupload, rapidshare, etc. They don’t want to stop there though, the law they are trying to pass os that they can sue a site for someone posting a link to one of the sites. So say if someone on facebook posts a mediafire link of a leaked cd, the government wants to sue the user and facebook. This is rediculous. Most sites that support these things are outside of the US and the government wants the right to shut down and sue those sites as well. There have been threats like this before and the chances of it actually hapening are still ip in the air. The thought of it potentially happening is still daunting. The industry needs to realize that with the internet being what it is, their media is going to be stolen, and a lot of bands have embraced that for their benefit. This law may soon may it that we may not even have wordpress to usee, which in turn would mean we wouldn’t have to do these blog posts….so maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if it gets ppassed

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